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To change a bit, some flowers... I had fun with these ones : from raw/nef (quite flat with horrible background) to adjustments in Develop and Photo Personas (I hope I did not already post the inflorescence, I could not find it herein). The 3rd is a close-up of the second. Amazing flowers

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@PedroOfOzThank you for the info . I do not know this book but I have to admit that I do notmotivationny (photo)booksmotivationaraphy . I have a few quite old ones more about newbie rudimental techniques that I bought when I was young (a long time ago

I will certainly get it. I do like very much B&W photos. I should spend more time in APhoto trying to get B&W photos like they works for me.

Cheers,

Patrick

@Pattou It's really a pleasure to look at your work and just thinking that you have done it with Affinity Photo is kind of motivational vitamin.

I believe buying the Affinity Workbook will be of great interest for you (if you haven't got a copy already)

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These "still life" photos might not suit everyone but they work very well for me. The raw were quite dull (I even wondered what I was going to do with them)... From Develop to Photo Persona with different live filters and blend modes and here is the result with such texture & colours. This is not macrophoto due to the size of the flowers.

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Still some macros but in addition to the editing I usually do, I've tested the live lightning filter which brings a kind of relief. APhoto dealed rather well with these images but I did not test another photo app for comparison (I saw in the forum that some users have problems with APh as a raw processor). The first two were processed from raw of different f (20 and 40), not the best to get a sharp image but APh sharpen filters are efficient, and I did not want to deal with focus stacking process this time (I might try to test APh).

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Here it is, a stacking of 6 images (macrophoto) at f/9.
It needed time to carry out the process due to the complexity of the subject but APhoto handles well, really very well. I only edited halos around edges with the clone brush tool (no other cloning or inpainting).
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Ok, the last of the week ... and even stronger for APh : 18 images first processed for hdr (naturel but contrasted look; 3 by 3) and then processed for stacking (6 images). It took almost 3 hours but APhoto did a great job. Halos were substantial but could be removed with the clone stamp tool from the source layers.

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On my screen (calibrated but not dedicated to photography), the B&W appears very contrasted and you can easily be into the different forms and texture of these tiny little (often less than ~1cm) living creatures. Without contrast, it is clearly less appealing... but indeed, one can wonder which subject has been photographed

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Hello Patrick , I could do a somewhat long winded reply however go to my web and click about ... it'll give a little about my background ... I wish you all the best with your work and I did post a link, back a bit, to a master photographer that works, in the same church, same pew as you' ... go for it

Screens, background ... nah! I'm calibrated ... I walked into a darkroom in 1979 and walked out of it for the last time in 2003 as a well seasoned pro....